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Michael Winner dies aged 77 Film director and newspaper columnist Michael Winner has died, aged 77, his wife Geraldine has confirmed. Born in Hampstead, London in 1935, he directed more than 30 films, including Death Wish and Scorpio. He was also famous for his barbed restaurant reviews, written for The Sunday Times under the banner "Winner's Dinners". Winner had been ill for some time. Last summer, he said liver specialists had given him 18 months to live. Paying tribute to her husband, Mrs Winner said: "Michael was a wonderful man, brilliant, funny and generous. A light has gone out in my life." Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber said he would "deeply miss" …

Preseason has started! Andrew Luck looked incredible! Go Colts!

Lance Armstrong stripped of seven Tour de France titles and banned for life Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and given a lifetime ban by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. USADA decided he used performance-enhancing drugs to achieve his success. Armstrong, who retired a year ago, strongly denies doping. But the anti-doping agency said Armstrong's decision not to take the charges against him to arbitration triggers the lifetime ineligibility and erased his results from 1 August 1998. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/19369375

Are there people here who follow it or is it only me? The world championships are in 2 week in Louisville, very first time it'll be in the USA. Today are the Belgian championships in Mol, Niels Albert is favourite along with Kevin Pauwels and Sven Nijs.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owYfDFxkpfM]Sydney sizzles on HOTTEST day on record! Mercury soars to 46.4°C in Australia - YouTube[/ame] Sydney bakes on hottest day on record as bushfires rage The Australian city of Sydney is experiencing its hottest day on record, with temperatures reaching nearly 46C. A temperature of 45.8C was recorded at Observatory Hill in the city at 14:55 local time (01:55 GMT). Some areas in the wider Sydney region were even hotter, with the town of Penrith, to the west, registering a temperature of 46.5C. In Victoria state, one man has been killed by a bushfire, one of dozens raging across southern Australia. State police s…

Manti Te'o's inspirational girlfriend story a hoax link Te'o had talked openly during the season about his supposed relationship with a former Stanford student named Lennay Kekua, whom he claimed in a South Bend Tribune article to have met in 2009 after a football game. Kekua was said to have lost her battle with leukemia on Sept. 12, just hours after Te'o learned that his 72-year old grandmother had passed away. The story of how Te'o dealt with massive personal tragedy became front and center in his rise to national consciousness. In interviews with Sports Illustrated and on the Jim Rome radio show, Te'o described talking to her by phone through the night a…

Facebook unveils social search tools for users Facebook has announced a major addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called graph search. The search tool can handle natural language queries The feature allows users to make "natural" searches of content shared by their friends. Search terms could include phrases such as "friends who like Star Wars and Harry Potter". Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg insisted it was not a web search, and therefore not a direct challenge to Google. However, it was integrating Microsoft's Bing search engine for situations when graph search itself could not find answers. Mr Zuckerberg sai…

Two die in helicopter crane crash in Vauxhall, London Two people have died after a helicopter crashed into a crane at a building site in central London in misty conditions, police have said. Police said it appeared the helicopter had hit the crane on top of a building at about 08:00 GMT. London Fire Brigade has 60 firefighters at the scene near Wandsworth Road in South Lambeth. They said one of the dead was in the helicopter. Burning wreckage lay in the road but the fire is now under control. A man rescued from a burning car by firefighters is one of two people taken to hospital by London Ambulance Service crews. The incident caused gridlock with all app…

Anybody know when Pro Evolution Soccer 13 will come out as an app? Anbody have the 2011 app and is it better than 2012?

Nvidia’s Surprise ‘Project Shield’ Handheld Games Console Shakes Up CES 2013 Everywhere you look these days, someone wants into your living room. Nintendo just launched it’s Wii-quel, the Wii U, developer Boxer8 is busy getting its Kickstarter-funded OUYA Android-based game console ready for an April 2013 launch and rumor has it Microsoft and Sony will unveil their next-gen boxes later this year. Enter GPU big shot Nvidia, firing a shot across everyone’s bow with something completely unexpected: an Nvidia-brand handheld game device with a dedicated 5-inch display that’ll also stream games wirelessly to your television. According to the Wall Street Journal, …

Jack Lew’s Terrible Signature May Grace Dollar Bills Now Jack Lew, President Obama's reported pick to replace outgoing Treasury secretary Tim Geithner, is known as a no-nonsense backroom negotiator with wonkish tendencies, who is admired on the left and grumbled about on the right. A lesser-known but extremely pertinent fact about Lew is that he has the world's worst signature. And pretty soon, that signature could be on every single one of your dollar bills. If Lew is confirmed as Treasury secretary, his signature will occupy the lower-right-hand spot on U.S. paper currency. And that signature, which was widely mocked when it surfaced on a September 2011 mem…

Student tells teacher: 'I don't want to shoot you' This image provided by the Taft Midway Driller/Doug Keeler shows paramedics ... TAFT, Calif. — The 16-year-old boy had just wounded a classmate he claimed had bullied him, fired two more rounds at students fleeing their first-period science class, then faced teacher Ryan Heber. "I don't want to shoot you," he told the popular teacher, who was trying to coax the teen into giving up the shotgun he still held. Recounting the suspect's words, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said the confrontation was enough of a distraction to give 28 students time to escape their classroom Thursday at Taft High School. Th…

White House Declines Death Star Undertaking, Cites Budget Constraints of $850,000,000,000,000,000 'This isn't the petition response you're looking for' Enemies of the Pentagon will not witness the power of a fully operational battle station anytime soon. Last month an online petition to the White House site "We the People" that called for the construction of the Death Star from the “Star Wars” movies surpassed the 25,000 signature threshold required to initiate an official response. Citing national security and the number of jobs the initiative would create, the petition gained 34,000 signatures. On Friday Paul Shawcross of the Office of Management and Budget, show…

Jessops camera chain in administration Troubled High Street camera retailer Jessops has gone into administration, with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) appointed as the administrator. In recent years, it has been hit by increasing competition from supermarkets and internet retailers. Jessops, which was founded in Leicester in 1935, has 192 stores in the UK and employs about 2,000 staff. The administrators said that it was "inevitable" that some stores would have to close. PwC said that while Jessops was a well-known brand with a strong reputation for service, its core marketplace had seen a significant decline in 2012, which was forecast to continue in 2013. …

Half of all world's food 'wasted' report claims As much as half of the world's food, amounting to two billion tonnes worth, is wasted, a UK-based report has claimed. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers said the waste was being caused by poor storage, strict sell-by dates, bulk offers and consumer fussiness. The study also found that up to 30% of vegetables in the UK were not harvested because of their physical appearance. The institution's Dr Tim Fox said the level of waste was "staggering". The report said that between 30% and 50% of the four billion tonnes of food produced around the world each year went to waste. It suggested that half the food bough…

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i searched in other forums but they're no help! and every case is different so i had to make an account and yeah no, and download other programs that needed to be done by experts and yeah no. in the morning i used my computer, facebook didnt work and it showed me that i had some error of https and it wasnt verified or w/e so i checked online about it and some people said it may be a bug in google chrome i uninstalled google chrome and it didnt work, and now whenever i try to sign in other websites (tumblr, hotmail) it would redirect me to the log in page and my passwords are correct so i did the stupidest thing, i thought it was all a virus because i downloaded som…

I realized that I don't really have many apps on my phone. What apps do you guys recommend or what do you use the most? Suggestions, please:thinking:

A Point of View: The British and their bizarre view of Americans We lap up their culture, adopt their economics and are obsessed with the "special relationship". So why do British people have such a confused - even negative - view of Americans, asks writer Will Self. In 1976 my American mother took me to see Tom Stoppard's two short plays, Dirty Linen and New-Found-Land. The former was a rather prescient - or possibly only perennial - farce about libidinous politicos and a prurient press. The latter - which, in an act of dramatic tmesis was inserted between the two halves of Dirty Linen - was a brief two-hander the playwright had penned in support of his friend E…

Hillsborough files released: Cameron apology over 'double injustice' David Cameron has said he is profoundly sorry for the "double injustice" of the Hillsborough football disaster. Speaking after an independent report into previously unseen documents about the tragedy, the prime minister said police had failed to do enough and had also tried to blame Liverpool fans. Ninety-six fans died after a crush at Sheffield Wednesday's ground in 1989. Campaigner Trevor Hicks said a faster response from the emergency services could have saved lives. Mr Hicks, who lost two daughters at Hillsborough and is a member of the family support group, said it would now press for…

The Yankees are struggling to put together a 2013 roster. Swisher is gone, and Jeter and A-Rod are hurt. Andy Pettitte signed for another year. He is is no spring chicken but cah still pitch. http://www.yankees.com

Sony's PlayStation 2 gaming console first went on sale in 2000 Sony stops production of PlayStation 2 Sony has ended Japanese production of its best-selling PlayStation 2 (PS2). The hardware first went on sale in March 2000 in Japan and since then more than 150 million PS2 consoles have been sold. The PS2 was so popular that it outsold its replacement for the first three years that the PlayStation 3 was available. By ending production, Sony has fuelled rumours it is putting manufacturing resources towards the PlayStation 4. Although Sony is ending production in Japan this does not mean no more games will be produced for the PS2. For instance, another ins…

Ivory Coast new year stampede kills dozens in Abidjan At least 60 people have been crushed to death and more than 200 injured during new year festivities in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan, officials say. The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday near a stadium in the central Plateau area of the city where a fireworks display was held. The cause of the stampede is not yet clear. It occurred as people were heading home after the event. Most of the dead are believed to be children aged between eight and 15. The death toll is expected to rise. The crush happened near the entrance to the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium after the fireworks ended at about 02:0…

President Vladimir Putin signs bill banning American adoption of Russian children MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children, part of a harsh response to a U.S. law targeting Russians deemed to be human rights violators. Although some top Russian officials including the foreign minister openly opposed the bill and Putin himself had been noncommittal about it last week, he signed it less than 24 hours after receiving it from Parliament, where both houses passed it overwhelmingly. The law also calls for closure of non-governmental organizations receiving American funding if their activitie…

Blockbusters on the way in 2013 Action and fantasy look set to dominate the box office in 2013 but it will also be the year One Direction add to their global teen takeover by releasing a concert movie. To start with though, there are a handful of films being referred to as the new Twilight, such as Beautiful Creatures, the first in the four part Caster Chronicles. The story centres on teenager Lena, a 'caster' who can use magic and will either be claimed for the Light or the Dark on her 16th birthday. In August, Mortal Instruments: City of Bones arrives, part one of a six part series, starring Lily Collins, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Jamie Campbell Bower, and in…